April 8, 2004

Stephen Bainbridge looks at the on-line fight between limited copyright advocate Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig and Forbes columnist Stephen Manes following Manes’ very critical review of Lessig’s new book: Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. 10:13:09 PM

While not an April Fools hoax, some are beginning to think that allowing Google to parse your email to determine which ads to place besides it means the joke is on you.The New York Times examines various privacy concerns. 10:06:30 PM

Canadian Tech Update ATI Technologies X-bit Labs reports that in an effort to be competitive with or beat its rival NVIDIA’s offerings, ATI Technologies has decided to boost performance of its next-generation code-named R420 processor by increasing the number of pixel pipelines inside the chip. The chip, which will power the RADEON X800 PRO and in faster versions, the RADEON X800 XT will have 16 pipelines, an upgrade from the previous expected 8 or 12. The RADEON X800 PRO is expected to be announced on April 26th and the faster XT version on May 31st with a PCI Express version released in June. No plain X800 versions are scheduled as yet. Meanwhile NVIDIA is not standing still, from earlier in the week: NVIDIA’s NV40 chip will be branded as the GeForce 6800, will be formally announced on the 13th of April and will reach retail stores by the 26th of April, according to the article. 10:01:23 PM

To help the cause: Jew 9:43:44 PM